Thespis, they say, discovered the Tragic Muse, An unknown form, presenting his plays from carts, Sung and acted by men, faces smeared with w...

I knew that Whewell had coined the term scientist , but this story of how it came about was new to me: It was June 24, 1833, at the meeting ...

A long-ish post -- I hope it begins to tap into larger themes that have preoccupied this blog from the start. As noted a while back, Book ...

… a dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and highth, And time and place are lost; where eldest Ni...

A bit of Googling turned up the text of the original 1667 edition of Paradise Lost in 10 books, easily readable online here. Barring several...

The program for this year's James Joyce Birthday Celebration includes a talk by Irish scholar Kevin O'Halloran entitled "Charl...

Book 6, like Book 5, begins with a dawn: till Morn, Wak't by the circling Hours, with rosie hand Unbarr'd the gates of Light. Verity...

Andrew Marvell admits he had his doubts about Paradise Lost: When I beheld the Poet blind, yet bold, In slender Book his vast Design unfol...

This post is a bit long, and not finished. Just trying to tie together several threads that emerged from our close look at Book 5 of Paradi...

Scientific American : Can culture be decoded like a genome? A team from Harvard University has teamed up with Google to crack the spines of ...

At the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Pete: Theater in Ancient Art : The William Knight Zewadski Collection This exhibition of approximately 50...

A few links pursuant to our discussion today of Book 5 of Paradise Lost: The author of the treatise on the angels entitled Celestial Hierarc...